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Comment: There are less complicated ways to achieve goal (Score 1) 332

by OS24Ever (#38712904) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release

Is your goal to provide internet access to church members or to charge them for internet access like a hotel?

How many people do you expect?

For example the Linksys E class routers have a built in 'guest network' feature that has a second SSID that is broadcast for Guests and allows up to 10 simultaneous users to connect. This gives them internet access only and doesn't allow them access to the actual network. Though it's limited to 10 people. This would be a simple solution but if you had more than ten people wanting access it could cause problems.

I have a NetGear WNR3500L. It has a guest network option that allows me to create a second SSID, allow or disallow access to the rest of my network, and allow or disallow the ability of the machines to connect to each other if they're on that network.

If you aren't looking to charge for it those two options to me seem like the best. Inexpensive and easy to configure.

Comment: Re:Srsly? (Score 5, Interesting) 507

by OS24Ever (#38563526) Attached to: Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA

I would think Facebook could implement something geographically that based on what they know about you, tell you who to call to get your Facebook account restored and have it be the senators of the state you live in, and the house of representatives for your zip code.

That could be spectacular. I mean the phone systems would melt down. I find this idea rather funny.

Comment: Re:I don't care (Score 1) 695

by OS24Ever (#38039306) Attached to: What is Your position on Climate Change?

golf clap

I agree whole heartily. We should focus on efficiency and not spewing things into the air you wouldn't feed yourself if you can avoid it.

I'm all for responsible nuclear power, one could argue that the problems we have with nuclear power now are because of our fear of it instead of healthy respect. Nuclear energy is the greenest form of energy we can mass produce right now.

But we're scared of it, and won't.

Comment: Re:It just proves analyst are complete idiots (Score 1, Insightful) 189

by OS24Ever (#37701516) Attached to: No PDFs, No Co-editing On Underwhelming Apple iCloud

I'm not trying to spin anything, I'm just saying that they never claimed to do that to begin with. Now, if you used the iCloud APIs and wrote an app that did, it'd work just fine. I haven't tested it extensively as I do not carry a lot of PDFs on my iPad, but the backup put the few that I had back into my iBooks when I restored, though I'm not sure if they 'restored' or were 're-syncd' as when you restore the iDevice it restores settings but apps & content are typically re-synced in my experience so far.

Comment: It just proves analyst are complete idiots (Score 5, Insightful) 189

by OS24Ever (#37701368) Attached to: No PDFs, No Co-editing On Underwhelming Apple iCloud

Never in any presentation did apple commit to any of those features.

It's a personal sync service, backup service.

That's it. It's storage somewhere, it's a sync service for your photographs between devices, and in a bit it'll be a music service for yourself.

Never did they say they'd let you directly access it like DropBox. Nothing would stop someone from making a PDF reader that saved and wrote to the iCloud but this last round of Apple products & software updates has created this bizarre 'oh they're doing THIS' line of crap from these analysts and they make up some of the craziest crap.

You will be run over by a bus.

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